Basically, GoldenEye, while extremely popular among console gamers, was very frowned upon by hardcore PC gamers. As a console gamer myself, this is my biased perspective, but that's the impression that I've gotten, and I can kinda understand it, a bit.
As a hardcore PC gamer, I still have to give goldeneye the props it deserves. It was one of the best first person shooters for consoles at the time and even to this day. I was heavy into wolfenstein, then doom 1 & 2, quake 1, 2 & 3 before I moved onto UT2004. The original 3 quakes were still my favourite though (never liked or got into Quake4 and Doom3 was mostly disapointing). I've played other shooters on consoles like Halo and SOCOM, but I never thought they were even half as good as Golden Eye was..
Oh god not Hershey! Their chocolate "kisses" smell like vomit IMO, and they don't taste like chocolate.
I got a whole box of hershey kisses for valentines and they sat around at the office for weeks and no one would touch them, in the trash they went.
Mozilla has money too, just not nearly as much as Apple.
from wikipedia:
In 2005, the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation had a combined revenue of US$52.9 million. Approximately 95 percent of this revenue[73] was related to their search engine relationships.
That's back in 2005, I bet by now their revenue is over $100 million.
Nvidia will come out with decent open drivers when you can convince them that ATI will not steal their driver tricks/optimization. Likewise, you must convince ATI that Nvidia will not read ATI's open source drivers...
Good luck with that!
And anecdotally, every Asus board I've ever owned was great. The MSI board I got on the other hand is decent at best.
I'll stick with VIA and buy the nvidia card separately, thanks.
We're talking about motherboard chipsets here, not graphics cards, and you can't just go purchase an nvidia chipset seperately to tack on your VIA board...
Er, I'm an idiot. Those are the prices for a different Samsung product with solid state drives included and not the price of solid state drives by themselves...
Thanks for posting. There is no 'official' planned PCI-E version of the Killer NIC as of yet.... (sorry). I'm the CEO and the Mad Scientist, so I'm always exploring new technology ideas though. As for PCI-E being Point-to-Point: yep it is. but it still get's mixed in at the Chipset, and mixed in with PCI traffic... (so there is still sharing if even at the DMA controller of the computer's memory).
The Killer NIC simply doesn't need that much bandwidth (unlike some other things like Physics Accelerators and some Sound Cards/etc... which really COULD use that much bandwidth).
Remember, the Killer was designed for Low Latency, and PCI is perfect for that.
When I say 'unshared' PCI, I mean not 3 or 4 PCI cards all running at the same time (like on some server machines).... but Killer works great with 1 or 2, (even 3 probably, but I haven't tested it.
ALL OUR TESTING IS DONE WITH AN XFI ALSO ON THE PCI!!! (this was an important point, and all our performance numbers are still rock solid fantastic).
I also found it kind of funny that they consider the X2 4400 low end, considering I have a X2 3800....Also, you can now get X2 3600's which are even lower end dual cores...
PS. I love my X2 3800+, it doesn't feel very "low end" to me.
Last item they disabled Cool and Quiet on over clocked AMD configuration s it should have never been published..
Pretty much any overclocker will tell you to disable Cool'n'Quiet if you plan on overclocking, mainly because C'n'Q can cause weird behaviours while attempting to overclock.
Cool'n'quiet down clocks your processor, the opposite of what you are trying to accomplish when you overclock. They don't really play very well together.
With four cores, you can play your game AND burn a disc AND have some crap going in the background and not have to care unless you become I/O-bound.
You mean with two cores. I play games and backup dvds in the background all the time while playing mp3s at the same time on my lowly socket 939 Athlon64 X2 3800+. I can play ANY game at 1680x1050 with 4xAA and 8xAF, max quality settings and still burn a dvd in the background with no noticeable drop in frame rate. Dual cores have been able to do this for a while now, not just with quad cores like you mentioned.
I'd avoid U-haul if you care about your own health & safety. They had an investigation into U-haul last year in Ontario, turns out a large number of their trucks are in a bad state of disrepair and aren't fit to be driven.
"It's bad enough to have the driveshaft drop out onto the road, but if the seatbelt had been working I am pretty sure he would still be alive," Annis said.
DD-WRT is great, I've been using it for a few years on an old Linksys WRT54G v1.1.
I recently bought a new WRT54GL because I wanted to build a wireless bridge. I decided to make the new router my main router because it has a 200mhz processor versus my old 1.1 model which has a 125mhz processor. Both models have the same version of DD-WRT installed. I noticed a huge difference with the new WRT54GL, accessing the web interface is much faster and more responsive. My old router is now a wireless client/bridge for my linux box and my PS2 in my loft and my main router on another level. Setting up the secured wireless bridge took about 10-15 minutes with DD-WRT on both routers. It's a great router IMO, my original router still works great after 3-4 years.
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Actually, every person I know changes their default search engine to Google. Therefore, all these mistyped URLs will be redirected to GOOGLE's search engine. Research before making baseless assumptions much?
So based on all your friends/contacts, I should come to the conclusion that everyone changes the default search engine to google in Internet Explorer?
I'm aware that people can change the search engine preference, but do you think your average Mom or Pop ever accesses the Internet Explorer Settings? They don't know how nor do they care. Most knowledgeable users switched to a more secure browser a long long time ago, so most IE users are probably less tech-savvy and are less likely to change the default settings in Internet Explorer. Microsoft takes advantage of the fact that most IE comes with Windows and most users don't know any better.
Before you start patting Microsoft on the back, please read my two previousposts. This is a really smart business tactic by Microsoft, they make themselves look good by going after those evil cybersquatters*, and they get more people using their search engine at the same time. Yay for shady business tactics!
*I'm all for getting rid of cybersquatters, but not for the benefit of Microsoft. Why else do you think Microsoft is doing this? Do you think Microsoft cares about "the greater good of the internet"? Their motivation is profit and/or getting a foothold in a market they want to compete in or be the dominent player (in this case, MSN search vs google).
You're missing the key point, by getting rid of those "typosquatters", those mistyped urls will be redirected to Microsoft's Search engine instead (atleast if you use Internet Explorer). That's the main reason why Microsoft is doing this, they want more traffic hitting up and using their search engine. This is how they attack google, by levering their OS monopoly (with built-in Internet Explorer) in order to gain a foothold in the search engine battle against google (though I think they'll still fail, this is how Microsoft does business, they fight dirty).
You want to know the real reason why Microsoft wants to get rid of cybersquatters? If you use Windows, fire up iexplore and type in some address that doesn't exist, you are redirected to a MSN Search page.
4. Or, say you download it with no commercials, how is that different at all than the second scenario?
Where exactly does downloading previously broadcast material become immoral?
Unless that material was broadcast over the airwaves for anyone to tune in to, it's not free. Cable TV signals don't just magically reach your house, you have to pay a monthly fee to a cable company. The studios don't give their content away to cable companies for free so that those cable companies can make a huge profit, obviously that material costs money. That's also why they have things like commercials, product placement ads, etc..
Let's pretend at some point in the future everyone stops paying for TV and starts downloading via bittorrent. How would the studios make money? Now the typical slashdotter might say "Who cares? They're a rich corporation, fuck 'em!", well sorry, but they have a right to be paid for their service just like anyone else. If no one got paid for making TV shows, there would be no new TV shows, unless the studios can somehow survive only on product placement revenue.
*Yes, I download TV shows (mainly Daily Show episodes that I miss and South Park from MrTwig.net) so I may be a little hypocritical.
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As a hardcore PC gamer, I still have to give goldeneye the props it deserves. It was one of the best first person shooters for consoles at the time and even to this day. I was heavy into wolfenstein, then doom 1 & 2, quake 1, 2 & 3 before I moved onto UT2004. The original 3 quakes were still my favourite though (never liked or got into Quake4 and Doom3 was mostly disapointing). I've played other shooters on consoles like Halo and SOCOM, but I never thought they were even half as good as Golden Eye was..
Oh god not Hershey! Their chocolate "kisses" smell like vomit IMO, and they don't taste like chocolate. I got a whole box of hershey kisses for valentines and they sat around at the office for weeks and no one would touch them, in the trash they went.
from wikipedia:
That's back in 2005, I bet by now their revenue is over $100 million.
Ya, mp3s can't touch 50~75meg wave files! Seriously though, I think I'll keep using mp3...
Nvidia will come out with decent open drivers when you can convince them that ATI will not steal their driver tricks/optimization. Likewise, you must convince ATI that Nvidia will not read ATI's open source drivers... Good luck with that!
We're talking about motherboard chipsets here, not graphics cards, and you can't just go purchase an nvidia chipset seperately to tack on your VIA board...
Er, I'm an idiot. Those are the prices for a different Samsung product with solid state drives included and not the price of solid state drives by themselves...
Pricey stuff...
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The memory you listed was Unbuffered ECC, the GP said he wanted Registered or Buffered ECC memory.
I also found it kind of funny that they consider the X2 4400 low end, considering I have a X2 3800....Also, you can now get X2 3600's which are even lower end dual cores...
PS. I love my X2 3800+, it doesn't feel very "low end" to me.
Pretty much any overclocker will tell you to disable Cool'n'Quiet if you plan on overclocking, mainly because C'n'Q can cause weird behaviours while attempting to overclock.
Cool'n'quiet down clocks your processor, the opposite of what you are trying to accomplish when you overclock. They don't really play very well together.
For Ubuntu, www.ubuntuforums.org is probably the best spot to look for help.
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DD-WRT is great, I've been using it for a few years on an old Linksys WRT54G v1.1. I recently bought a new WRT54GL because I wanted to build a wireless bridge. I decided to make the new router my main router because it has a 200mhz processor versus my old 1.1 model which has a 125mhz processor. Both models have the same version of DD-WRT installed. I noticed a huge difference with the new WRT54GL, accessing the web interface is much faster and more responsive. My old router is now a wireless client/bridge for my linux box and my PS2 in my loft and my main router on another level. Setting up the secured wireless bridge took about 10-15 minutes with DD-WRT on both routers. It's a great router IMO, my original router still works great after 3-4 years.
So based on all your friends/contacts, I should come to the conclusion that everyone changes the default search engine to google in Internet Explorer?
I'm aware that people can change the search engine preference, but do you think your average Mom or Pop ever accesses the Internet Explorer Settings? They don't know how nor do they care. Most knowledgeable users switched to a more secure browser a long long time ago, so most IE users are probably less tech-savvy and are less likely to change the default settings in Internet Explorer. Microsoft takes advantage of the fact that most IE comes with Windows and most users don't know any better.
Before you start patting Microsoft on the back, please read my two previous posts. This is a really smart business tactic by Microsoft, they make themselves look good by going after those evil cybersquatters*, and they get more people using their search engine at the same time. Yay for shady business tactics!
*I'm all for getting rid of cybersquatters, but not for the benefit of Microsoft. Why else do you think Microsoft is doing this? Do you think Microsoft cares about "the greater good of the internet"? Their motivation is profit and/or getting a foothold in a market they want to compete in or be the dominent player (in this case, MSN search vs google).
You're missing the key point, by getting rid of those "typosquatters", those mistyped urls will be redirected to Microsoft's Search engine instead (atleast if you use Internet Explorer). That's the main reason why Microsoft is doing this, they want more traffic hitting up and using their search engine. This is how they attack google, by levering their OS monopoly (with built-in Internet Explorer) in order to gain a foothold in the search engine battle against google (though I think they'll still fail, this is how Microsoft does business, they fight dirty).
You want to know the real reason why Microsoft wants to get rid of cybersquatters? If you use Windows, fire up iexplore and type in some address that doesn't exist, you are redirected to a MSN Search page.
F ORM=DNSAS&q=non.existent.domain for example. Microsoft wants all mistyped urls redirected to their search engine.
If Microsoft can get rid of thousands of cybersquatters, they get more redirects going to http://sea.search.sympatico.msn.ca/dnserror.aspx?
Microsoft is no better than the cybersquatters, the only difference is they have the money and lawyers to bully them into submission.
Unless that material was broadcast over the airwaves for anyone to tune in to, it's not free. Cable TV signals don't just magically reach your house, you have to pay a monthly fee to a cable company. The studios don't give their content away to cable companies for free so that those cable companies can make a huge profit, obviously that material costs money. That's also why they have things like commercials, product placement ads, etc..
Let's pretend at some point in the future everyone stops paying for TV and starts downloading via bittorrent. How would the studios make money? Now the typical slashdotter might say "Who cares? They're a rich corporation, fuck 'em!", well sorry, but they have a right to be paid for their service just like anyone else. If no one got paid for making TV shows, there would be no new TV shows, unless the studios can somehow survive only on product placement revenue.
*Yes, I download TV shows (mainly Daily Show episodes that I miss and South Park from MrTwig.net) so I may be a little hypocritical.
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